Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 08:27:49 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Rob (Robert) Hilton" Subject: Re: woodcocks and a question In-Reply-To: <001601bf8712$9cb0b250$15ee7ad1@jett> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" A group of gulls can soar and 'kettle'. Rob Hilton robert@csa.com Bethesda At 08:20 PM 3/5/00 -0600, you wrote: >Gulls > >----- Original Message ----- >From: Bob Hartman >To: >Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2000 8:48 AM >Subject: [MDOSPREY] woodcocks and a question >> >> We went early (4:30 or so) and walked for a while before >> sunset. Didn't see many birds (bad time of day), but we did >> see one thing that puzzled us, and want to ask for opinions >> from others. For at least 15 minutes while we were walking, >> there was what appeared to be a "kettle" of hawks overhead, >> about 20, very high, so that we couldn't see much detail. All >> appeared to be very white underneath (both wings and body), >> with possible black wing-tips. Looked for but couldn't >> discern tail-bands on the white tails. Could these have been >> Broad-Winged Hawks? It seems pretty early. >> >> The only other thing we could think of that would be that big >> and white underneath is gulls, but we've never seen or heard >> of gulls forming a "kettle". >> ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================